Synopses & Reviews
Learn to:- Create a LinkedIn profile that showcases your skills and attracts contacts
- Find and connect with colleagues and industry leaders
- Understand LinkedIn etiquette and best practices
- Use LinkedIn to find a job, develop sales leads, and market your services
Make valuable connections, build your brand, and grow your business with LinkedIn
LinkedIn is the social networking resource for professionals and an instrumental tool in developing your personal brand and creating an online identity for your organization. Updated for the latest LinkedIn tools, this guide is packed with the advice you need to market yourself, work your contacts, generate new leads, and, ultimately, find that next job or close that big deal.
- Get started — dig into the basics of LinkedIn, learn how to sign up, build your profile, and connect with other professionals
- Grow your network — reach out to new contacts, make introductions, and find thought leaders to follow in your industry
- Use LinkedIn groups — discover the vast ecosystem of LinkedIn groups and find out how to contribute to ongoing discussions
- Build a reputation — enhance your profile with Recommendations, optimize your profile with keywords, and showcase your skills
- Get down to business — use LinkedIn to promote your business, share employment opportunities, identify new employees, secure funding, increase sales, and more
Open the book and find:
- Help signing up and getting started with LinkedIn
- How to build your online profile
- Details on using the LinkedIn search functionality
- Advice on savvy ways to grow your network
- How to use LinkedIn Recommendations
- Information on finding jobs, employees, or companies
- Tips for participating in LinkedIn Groups
- Creative ways to use LinkedIn
Synopsis
- What the book covers: the key features of LinkedIn including understanding how LinkedIn works, joining LinkedIn, starting your network, building your own profile, searching the network, managing introductions and InMail, growing your network, using LinkedIn answers, requesting and writing recommendations, adding skills and endorsements to your profile, keeping track of your LinkedIn activities, importing contacts into LinkedIn, finding a job, following thought leaders on LinkedIn, finding employees, finding professional services, getting connected with LinkedIn groups, marketing yourself and your business, connecting with company pages, developing strategic partnerships, using LinkedIn to cultivate sales leads, finding potential investors, and more.
- Series features: Information presented in the straightforward but fun language that has defined the Dummies series for more than twenty years.
Synopsis
Don't be left out—link up with this fully updated introduction to the Internet's hottest professional networking toolWith more than 225 million members from over 200 countries and territories worldwide, LinkedIn.com is an unbeatable self-marketing tool. LinkedIn For Dummies teaches you how to make the most of your LinkedIn.com profile and build connections and relationships within the world’s largest professional network. This thorough introduction covers the latest LinkedIn features and how to use this valuable networking tool.
Learn how LinkedIn helps you manage relationships and networks, handle recommendations, showcase your skills and endorsements, import contacts, follow thought leaders, cultivate sales leads, find investors, market yourself, and more.
- Provides valuable tips and explanations to help you build your profile, develop your network, manage invitations, request and write recommendations, and get involved in LinkedIn groups
- Covers new and improved LinkedIn tools such as endorsements, people follow, company pages, groups, mobile apps, InMail, and LinkedIn Today
- Answers frequently asked LinkedIn and job searching questions with the clear and helpful style expected of For Dummies books
Connections have never been more vital to a successful career, and LinkedIn For Dummies is here to make sure you don’t miss out on your next big opportunity!
About the Author
Joel Elad, MBA, is a social networking, Internet, and eBay guru with a software development background and a yearning for entrepreneurship. He has authored or coauthored several books, including Facebook Advertising For Dummies and Starting an Online Business All-in-One For Dummies.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part I: LinkedIn Basics 7
Chapter 1: Looking into LinkedIn 9
Chapter 2: Sign Me Up! 29
Chapter 3: Building Your Profile 45
Part II: Finding Others and Getting Connected 73
Chapter 4: Searching LinkedIn 75
Chapter 5: Managing Introductions and InMail 91
Chapter 6: Growing Your Network 109
Chapter 7: Connecting With and Endorsing Your Network 131
Part III: Growing and Managing Your Network 153
Chapter 8: Exploring the Power of Recommendations 155
Chapter 9: Keeping Track of Your LinkedIn Activities 177
Chapter 10: Using LinkedIn with Your E-Mail and Browser 193
Part IV: Finding Employees, Jobs, and Companies 215
Chapter 11: Finding Employees 217
Chapter 12: Finding a Job 235
Chapter 13: Finding Companies on LinkedIn 247
Part V: Using LinkedIn for Everyday Business 257
Chapter 14: Getting Connected with LinkedIn Groups 259
Chapter 15: Marketing Yourself and Your Business 279
Chapter 16: Using LinkedIn to Increase Your Sales 293
Chapter 17: Venture Capital and Angel Funding 307
Chapter 18: Miscellaneous Creative Uses of LinkedIn 315
Part VI: The Part of Tens 331
Chapter 19: Ten LinkedIn Do’s and Don’ts 333
Chapter 20: Ten LinkedIn Resources 343
Index 349